Details

Date Published

May 31, 2016

Date Built

Feb. 14, 2016

CPU Clock Rate

4GHz

GPU Core Clock Rate

1.28GHz

GPU Effective Memory Clock Rate

7.01GHz

Description

I put this computer together a few months ago and have just finally got around to publishing the build here. A close friend of mine sold his little brother on having me build his computer instead of a custom computer shop called XGamerPC and he couldn't have been happier with the result. I'm really proud of the work I did on this one. It took me about 7 hours when you count the cable sleeving time.

Good job on the color matching and I love the sleeving you have done. Very smart idea (not sure how well it holds up though) on sleeving the PSU cable. have not really seen that before, at least I think so (seen a lot of builds through the years :P)

But yeah, great build! I think my only criticism is using really slow RAM when that motherboard supports much higher, and trust me, the difference between 1600 and lets say 2400 is huge. I have seen some people get around a 12-15% increase in performance from the two.

Well, the 950-960's are a pretty sweet price/performance point, especially for 1080p gaming. Plus an upgrade to the yet to be revealed 1060 looks like it will be somewhere between the 970/980 in performance.

Except that additional graphics performance would have done almost nothing for this man as he does not play any graphically demanding games. Additionally, this was from February when there was not even a hint of the RX480 or GTX 1060.